8

The Docker daemon gets stopped and not restarted after unattended upgrades.
Is this normal?
Im using Ubuntu Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

Dec 01 06:39:19 systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities...
Dec 01 06:39:26 systemd[1]: Stopping Docker Application Container Engine...
Improve this question
  • 1
    Is it when containerd is being upgraded as per here serverfault.com/questions/1044493/…? Your question probably needs more information. – Betty Von Schmartenhausen Dec 1 '20 at 8:16
  • 1
    Is there any evidence that this was a defect in the update pushed yesterday? It is atypical for Docker to not restart after an update. Certainly it is safer to not use unattended upgrades, but in principle they should work, right? – Bufke Dec 1 '20 at 16:53
4

There is a bug in Ubuntu which caused this shutdown of dockerd. It occurred because of an automatic security update of containerd. See also https://serverfault.com/questions/1044493/how-to-make-sure-docker-service-will-start-after-containerd-upgrade.

The previously accepted answer disables the automatic security updates, so be aware of the consequences.

Improve this answer
6

Ubuntu has a hidden auto-upgrade program, and it sometimes crashes your system by terminating docker. (My server went down for 5 hours because of this issue)

To fix this bug, just disable apt-daily-upgrade.timer.service on all your ubuntu servers. Usually, even without this bug, we don't want slient upgrade which may cause service interruption.

sudo systemctl disable --now apt-daily-upgrade.timer

Ref: https://arun.nz/why-does-docker-restart-all-containers-regularly/

Improve this answer
  • In such case, how you maintain that daily updates? Manually, every week or smth? I'm looking for good practices :) – Aurimas Dec 10 '20 at 14:17
  • @Aurimas I manually trigger a upgrade task for all my servers twice a month. (a simple SSH command inside for-loop) After finishing the bi-monthly upgrade, I wait for several minutes and check my realtime monitor board, to make sure all services are healthy. – recolic Dec 11 '20 at 6:44
  • thanks! Could you share your script for manually triggering of the update task? :) – Aurimas Dec 16 '20 at 23:17
  • 1
    @Aurimas This is a naive script for only 5 servers, you may look at it: paste.ubuntu.com/p/pQKnMZM7MB – recolic Dec 17 '20 at 5:06

Your Answer

By clicking “Post Your Answer”, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and cookie policy

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.